Link Exchange is now considered as Black Hat Technique, but Forum posting if done in relevant sites will help to increase your brand visibility, increase ranking and traffic of the website. However social media engagement is still important in order to increase the ranking, traffic to reach to your target audience. Share post in the relevant groups, instead of just sharing link write effective post with relevant hash tags. In social one thing plays very important role that is time of publishing your content, if your targeting US audience you need to share data according to their time and not as per your convenience.

The best practices in Off page SEO to rank the keyword higher on 1st page even 1st position.There is many practices we perform to achieve the same.1. Guest Posting2. Article Submission3. Social Bookmarking4. Directiry5. Business Listing and many more.......................